Southeastern User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience43.1% of reviews
Neutral13.8% of reviews
Negative experience43.1% of reviews

~ Based on 188 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Southeastern Safe?

Southeastern: Train tickets appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Southeastern is 88/100.

This assessment is based on 63 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

95.2% of ratings point to a safe experience
0.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
4.8% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 63 App Store ratings for Southeastern.

Is Southeastern Legit?

Southeastern: Train tickets appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Southeastern is 80/100.

Based on 80 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

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Cannot use valid railcard

Will not allow you to buy tickets with railcard prices unless you have bought your railcard in the app. In other words, there is no way to transfer a railcard purchases elsewhere—e.g., through National Rail or in person—to your account. And you cannot select railcard prices unless you have a railcard loaded into your account. In effect, this makes the app useless for me.
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Advance booking Wad to Grantham

We do not like or enjoy the underground connection on the Northern line from Lbg to Kings Cross when there is a Thameslink train from Lbg to StP / Kings Cross which is much easier. I also understand that we have to have paper tickets and not an e ticket due to the underground not accepting e tickets. This needs looking at and changing please!
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Paper tickets

No option to have digital tickets on your phone when buying a trip to London with a travelcard. Please sort that out. Otherwise a pretty handy app.

Railcard bug

Selecting network railcard is not working and thus impossible to get the price associated. Reported wells ago and known issue but still not fixed. Keep deleting and reinstalling the app.

Senior rail card

The senior railcard option in the app doesn’t work. It used to up until latest update but no longer. All the other rail card options can be selected but not senior! I had to purchase my ticket at the station today and reported the issue to the man in the ticket office who said that others had complained of the same thing. Please fix it.
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Could be better - delay repay is rubbish

The app is ok. Does what it needs to on the most part. Apart from Delay Repay which absolutely does not work - can see my ticket but cannot select it to put through a claim (convenient for SE some might say). The one click delay repay should be great but is very hit and miss. I would probably be less bothered if I didn’t so frequently need to use delay repay…
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Slow

Expired tickets showing as active

The worst app I have ever used

Coded by stevie wonder

Ignoring railcards

The app no longer recognises railcards so you can’t use it! Have to use Trainline!!!! Sort it out please.

App showing incorrect pricing

A recent update seems to have altered so no longer applying railcard discounts, this means having to go to the website to buy them

Network railcard stopped working

The app is normally great, but recently my network railcard has stopped working.
You can see it is there before running the search, but all the results ignore the card and are full price. If I click the railcard section before the search, there is no ‘1’ against the network railcard, so I can’t remove it or try adding again. I now need to buy my ticket with a different app. Devs, please fix! Was all fine previously.
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C

New update took away options to see previous departed or delayed trains. Really bad for planning journeys on the go. Totally unhelpful.

I was almost 2 hours late home

I was going from Margate (17:24 late also came at 17:29) to Rochester I thought but this train ride took me to London Victoria I was not notified about that the train will not stop at Rochester, Chatham, Bromley south I wasn’t notified as the speakers were extremely quite like they were broken and the people played loud music. So my time was taken away from me and instead of being home at about 19:10, im going to be home at about 20:40 so 1 and a half hour of my time taken away from me. I really want them to not rush next time and let the people know before they even enter the train (I only found out after it drove through the station I needed them to stop at. The service was a 8/10 but the people who decided to randomly change the schedule mid away the train ride is a 0.
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Ok until you need to claim delay repay

Interface for claiming delay repay is incredibly painful. Often you spend 10+ minutes going through the same form, only to be met with a Google ReCaptcha challenge that inexplicably fails and you have to start again. This is simple. You know what ticket I bought, you know the train times, the cancellations and delays. Just process the refund automatically and stop trying to benefit from unclaimed repayments.
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Just like Southeastern -

Unintuitive, Stupid, and Not User Friendly.

Trip to Whitstable

It was straight forward to use.

Cheaper than Trainline, and a better experience

Cheaper. No booking fee. App significantly easier to use (for quick checking f train times, and booking). I won’t be using Trainline any more

Very slow

Have been trying to load app for over 30 minutes and still not done. No problem with other apps!

A true work of art

It takes a special kind of app to consistently be slower and less reliable than software was in the 1990’s, but SouthEastern have managed it.

I assume they have a dedicated team to ensure it takes 30+ seconds to load each ticket, with specialists tasked to guarantee that 25% of the time, it will show yesterday’s ticket . I applaud them for making their app approximately as reliable as their trains - true dedication to their art.
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